Majority of F1 journalists seem to duck controversy?
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Compared to political journalists/commentators, F1 journalists/commentators seem to do everything they can to avoid controversy? Other than Ted Kravitz we seem to have most of the journalists and commentators doing their upmost to play down the Red Bull cash-gate scandal.
Why? Because they are not up to the job of asking probing awkward questions like political journalists?
and/or because many are ex racers and are too close to all the teams and Governing bodies and it might impact on their freebies? Dinners, trips round the circuits in cars, a ride out on the yacht, all of course in the line of business ?
If Christian Horner was a senior politician he would have been taken to the cleaners. Watching the press conference the journalists let him off so lightly as have most of the written sports press.
Seems to me reading social media it has been left to the fans to ask the difficult questions, sadly the professionals have let the fans down.
They are being paid a lot of money to basically not rock the boat ?
Why? Because they are not up to the job of asking probing awkward questions like political journalists?
and/or because many are ex racers and are too close to all the teams and Governing bodies and it might impact on their freebies? Dinners, trips round the circuits in cars, a ride out on the yacht, all of course in the line of business ?
If Christian Horner was a senior politician he would have been taken to the cleaners. Watching the press conference the journalists let him off so lightly as have most of the written sports press.
Seems to me reading social media it has been left to the fans to ask the difficult questions, sadly the professionals have let the fans down.
They are being paid a lot of money to basically not rock the boat ?
aberdeeneuan said:
Matthew Syed in the Times isn’t mucking about. Linked to Twitter to avoid paywalls etc.
https://twitter.com/matthewsyed/status/15874892474...
Well said https://twitter.com/matthewsyed/status/15874892474...
Sky Tv should use the opportunity to never have Horner back in front of their cameras again. He’s sunk to the lowest of the low and everyone outside of Red Bull knows that. Just that the majority of F1 commentators don’t have the balls to call him out so he just milks it and things get worse
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